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This tool serves as a guide for substance misuse professionals, presenting 26 interventions designed to prevent adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and reduce their negative health impacts.
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This guide supports strategic prevention planning for American Indian and Alaska Native communities by identifying culturally informed programs that reduce substance misuse and promote mental health. It includes 85 programs evaluated using both Western and Indigenous methods, categorized by documented outcomes, target populations, and settings to help tribes select effective, culturally responsive interventions.
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This tool explores how the housing sector and prevention professionals can collaborate to address substance misuse and housing instability. It covers key housing paradigms, the complex relationship between housing and substance use, and practical ways to partner with housing organizations to improve community health and reduce risk factors related to substance misuse.
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This interactive, digital toolkit is designed to educate SAMHSA grantees and prevention professionals on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they impact the risk of substance use. Leveraging up-to-date scholarly research and aligned with HHS’s five core domains, the toolkit offers an in-depth examination of the specific SDOH linked to substance misuse outcomes.
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Recognizing the vital role prescribers play in mitigating prescription opioid misuse, this resource explores the importance of educating prescribers on safe opioid prescribing practices, outlines key goals for prescriber education, and provides foundation information that prevention professionals need to advocate for and facilitate prescriber education in their communities.
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The Institute of Medicine's continuum of care categorizes behavioral health services into four areas: promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery. This resource explores how these services align, offering support from promoting wellness to aiding in long-term recovery. It provides a structured framework for addressing substance misuse across various stages of care, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals and communities.
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This tool educates prevention professionals about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), including what ACEs are, their prevalence, their impact on substance use and other behavioral health outcomes, and how to integrate addressing them into existing prevention.
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This resource examines cultural-specific risk and protective factors related to substance misuse and mental well-being in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. It provides research findings to assist in culturally responsive prevention planning, emphasizing the importance of understanding and respecting their diverse cultural backgrounds and practices.
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This tool provides a comprehensive guide on the use and accessibility of naloxone, a life-saving medication for reversing opioid overdoses. It discusses the current state of naloxone access, including types of access laws, liability protections, and the future of over-the-counter availability. The guide also addresses non-legal barriers to naloxone access, such as knowledge gaps, attitudes, values, beliefs, and logistical challenges. Additionally, it outlines strategies to overcome these barriers and considers additional factors like polysubstance use and naloxone dosing.
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This tool helps practitioners in locating data on risk factors for opioid overdose and offers insights into various risk factors, data sources, and indicators related to opioid use and misuse. It helps practitioners better understand and target their prevention efforts, identify new data sources, find proxy measures for specific factors when direct data is unavailable, and identify potential partners who collect relevant data.